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This AA wonders if profanity in meetings does more harm than good to the program

The Saturday night speaker had slipped steadily down from teenage gangs into drinking, drugs, jail, deserted children, court, robbery, then prison where he entered rehab, began attending AA, gained release on probation and started rebuilding his life. It was a powerful story of alcoholism and early recovery, all of it well-seasoned with curse words.